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Ethics of Educating American Global Surgeons: An Approach to Conscientious Training on the Individual, Departmental, and Institutional Levels.

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Global surgery is a medical field dedicated to the facilitation of timely access to safe, affordable, and high-quality surgical healthcare worldwide, including support for necessary surgery and anesthesia infrastructure. Standard… Click to show full abstract

Global surgery is a medical field dedicated to the facilitation of timely access to safe, affordable, and high-quality surgical healthcare worldwide, including support for necessary surgery and anesthesia infrastructure. Standard surgical training in the US does not provide necessary exposure to the range of surgical operations and nontechnical skills critical to practice in resource-limited contexts. Therefore, academic medical institutions have sought to bridge this training gap by establishing global surgery-focused rotations, fellowships, and integrated global surgery residencies. However, the presence of trainees pursuing education for careers in resource-variable settings presents an added layer of ethical complexity that must be carefully considered on the individual, programmatic, and institutional level. This article reviews the complexities relevant to global surgery trainees across these levels and offers potential mechanisms for addressing these ethical challenges.

Keywords: global surgeons; surgery; global surgery; ethics educating; american global; educating american

Journal Title: Journal of the American College of Surgeons
Year Published: 2022

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